Saturday, July 8, 2017

Week 45 What a Week:)

May 8, 2017

Hello hello!

This week was so great and I have lots of things to tell!

Last
pday was so cool! We made waffles and cookies and spent the whole
afternoon with a Sister in the ward here! Charlie (a movie) was sooo
sad. I totally cried at the end. It´s awful, I wouldn´t reccommend
it 😂 Not unless you like sad movies...

So
this last week was an adventure.. because one day our water got cut!
Apparently our mission didn´t have the funds to pay our water bill XD
But we survived! Luckily it was only one day 😛

So
there´s a cat that lives by our house here and this cat is literally
the strangest. When he meows, it sounds like a baby crying.. so like
randomly during the morning and at night we here this cat meowing and it
totally throws it off! Brasil is weird.

So this week I had a pretty interesting/terrible experience that I want to share with yall because of what I learned.

Thursday
I was on a divison with Sister Atkinson and we decided to contact a
reference we had received. The first time we stopped by, the mom of the
reference answered the door. She was polite and said her son would be
home later that night. We said we´d stop by later! Totallllllly
normal. When we stopped by again his grandma came out and immediately
started yelling at us and called us dogs and all other sorts of terrible
thigns. We tried to appoligize but she wouldn´t even let us speak! So
we just kind of walked away.. it was strange and horrible. We went to
the closest corner and started looking at our planners, deciding what to
do next, when she came outside AGAIN and started yelling at us until we
were about a block away! Uhhhg. Up until now, this was by far the
worst experience of my mission! I wanted to cry, but I didn´t because I
was on a division. And I wanted to go back and talk to that woman and
understand why she felt that way! (at the time, it was mostly out of
frustration, not out of love that I wanted to do that). I did not like
how that woman had treated us. So I began to pray and pray and pray,
because I didn´t want to keep feeling hurt and angry. I´m certain that
Sister Atkinson also was praying, because soon we were able to cheer up
and feel the Spirit again.

Sooo from this whole experience, I have really stregthened my testimony on the power of prayer and also on the Holy Ghost.

"But
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your
rememberance.." John 14:26.

This
week I literally felt the Holy Ghost comforting me. I literally felt
him taking away my hurt feelings, and replacing them with feelings of
love and concern. He reminded me that that woman is ALSO a child of
God. And now I can say that I actually do want to return to talk to
that woman to understand why she felt that way, out of love, and not
frustration.

I
couldn´t get over that terrible experience by myself, but with prayer
and with the help of the Holy Ghost, I could. I know that God loves all
of His children equally, and I know that prayer is so important. I know
that the Holy Ghost has the power to comfourt us and remind us of good
things.

Have a LOVELY week❤

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL OF YOU MOTHERS❤❤❤

xo Sister Councill

PICS..

so here are some pics of what we did last pday..

Sister Coutinho and I made calzones during the week! Yummm

There was a baptism of a boy here in the ward and afterwards he had a Star Wars themed bday party!